I. EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

1. Overview of Evidence-Based Practice

2. Searching for Evidence

3. Research and the Mandate for Evidence-Based Practice

Quality, and Patient Safety

4. Continuous Quality Improvement

5. Establishing and Sustaining an Evidence-Based Practice Environment

II. BUILDING BLOCKS FOR EVIDENCE

6. Critical Appraisal of Evidence&emsp

7. Identifying a Focus of Practice Inquiry

8. Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks

9. Quantitative Designs for Practice Scholarship

10. Qualitative Approaches for Practice Scholarship

11. Sampling Methods

12. Designing Questionnaires and Data Collection Forms

13. Physiological and Psychological Data Collection Methods

III. USING AVAILABLE EVIDENCE

14. Literature Reviews

15. Program Planning and Evaluation

16. Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

IV. EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, ETHICAL ASPECTS OF A STUDY, AND COMMUNICATING RESULTS

17. Cost as a Dimension of Evidence-Based Practice

18. Evaluation of Outcomes

19. Ethical Aspects of Practice Scholarship

20. Communicating Practice Scholarship Through Oral Presentation

21. Reporting Results Through Publications

22. Exemplars of APRN-led Initiatives